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Showing 1 to 20 of 165 for “"psycholinguistics"”.
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THE EFFECTS OF WORD LENGTH, WORD FREQUENCY AND WORD REPETITION IN AUDITORY MEMORY (LEXICON, VERBAL ABILITY, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS)
<p>Four auditory lexical decision experiments were run to assess the effects of word frequency, word length, and word repetition. Experiment I examined the effects of word length, word frequency, and stimulus repetition on RT. The results demonstrated a significant main effect for length and …
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The Effect of Pronoun Type on First and Second Language Perceptual Strategies in Hindi (India, Psycholinguistics, Acquisition, Processing, Reading)
This research investigated the distributional patterns of full and zero pronouns in written Hindi discourse, and the processing strategies employed by L1 and L2 Hindi speakers in assigning anaphoric reference.
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A Study of the Use of English Sentence Stress for the Comprehension of Meaning by Adult Second Language Learners (Psycholinguistics, Arabic, Spanish, Acquisition)
Research interest in the prosody of English has increased in recent years and has resulted in detailed descriptions of some of the prosodic features of the language. There is also now evidence that the prosodic features are vital to communication. One of these features, linguistic stress, is …
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Structural Priming in Bilingual Language Processing and Second Language Learning
… research on bilingualism in cognitive science, psycholinguistics, and second language acquisition.
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Phonological transfer in second language perception and production
… constructs and techniques from linguistics, psycholinguistics and, to a limited extent, computational modelling. The study contributes to an understanding of the perception-production relationship in L2 speech, how transfer factors into that relationship, and general (universal) principles …
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Comprehension and recall of figurative language by nonnative speakers of English
… of English. Most metaphor researchers in psycholinguistics have come to believe that nonliteral language is a vital component of language, not a ""special"" part that is acquired only after literal language has been acquired or that requires a different type of processing than literal …
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Psycholinguistic Investigations of Brand Names via Word Recognition and Memory Experiments
… there are relatively few within the field of psycholinguistics. Consequently, there is little knowledge about brand name representation, including how these representations become components of language. The psycholinguistic findings of the five experiments in this study are as follows: brand …
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La adquisición de la categoría funcional determinante y los sustantivos nulos del español infantil.
… acquisition is a central problem in the field of psycholinguistics because it relates directly to the issue of how linguistic knowledge is represented in the mind. The syntactic phenomenon known as N-drop, which leads to the presence of null nouns, is particularly suited because their productivity …
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Model sensitivity to prior selection in replication studies
… a replication research for a widely cited psycholinguistics paper (Fine, Jaeger, Qian, & Farmer, 2013), this thesis aims to provide insight as to how a replication researcher might go about selecting priors for analyzing replication studies within a Bayesian framework. By using sensitivity …
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Pruning the right branch : working memory and understanding sentences
… memory in different disciplines (neuroimaging, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology) are highly correlated, and thus whether they are equivalent measures of a unitary underlying function. Scores on the different tests (N-back, reading span, backward digit span) did not correlate highly, and were …
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The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability
… contributes to the fields of linguistics and psycholinguistics.
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An Evaluation of Game Fiction-Enhanced Training: Using Narrative to Improve Trainee Reactions and Learning
… outcomes over expository texts in the context of psycholinguistics, whereas the Technology-Enhanced Training Effectiveness Model (TETEM) proposes that certain individual differences impact the relationships between technology-enhanced training and learning outcomes. From this theoretical basis, …
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Spatial languages in IsiXhosa
… was developed by the 'Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics' (MPI) in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Their research tools "Man & Tree" and "Space Games" were employed to gather the language data on spatial language of isiXhosa. A particular focus in this study was placed on investigating the …
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Essays on Peer to Peer Lending
… We bridge the P2P lending literature and psycholinguistics literature and set out to explain how psychological distancing manifested by linguistic styles can influence lenders’ decision on P2P funding campaign. We argue find that linguistic styles related to psychological distancing have a …
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Discourse analysis of interviews with manic patients
… social psychology and sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and linguistics and semiotics. The analysis is divided into two parts; micro-analysis and macro- analysis. The micro-analysis consists of tone-unit analysis, which examines the process by which the speaker segments utterances into …
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La théorie du langage et l'art d'écrire chez Condillac
… one of the main interests of present-day psycholinguistics, represents the focal point of this part.</p> <p>The second part concentrates on <em>De l'art d'écrire</em> (1775), a stylistic treatise, in which Condillac speaks as an aesthetician on language. One of Condillac’s preoccupations …
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The Production and Comprehension Lexicons: What Is Shared and What Is Not
One of the long-standing questions in psycholinguistics has been the relationship between comprehension and production. Theories of language production and comprehension typically propose that word retrieval involves the selection of at least two levels of lexical information, semantic …
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Understanding Computer Programs: Computational and Cognitive Perspectives
… generate stimuli for experiments in psycholinguistics and cognitive neuroscience (chapter 7), which can improve our understanding of how our minds and brains comprehend programs. Finally, I propose a probabilistic framework which models the mechanism of finding important parts of a …
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Magnetoencephalographic investigations of morphological identity and irregularity
… thesis addresses the longstanding debate in the psycholinguistics literature about the correct way to characterize the psychological status of morphological relatedness and irregular allomorphy. The model argued for here is one in which the mental lexicon consists of lexical roots (sound -meaning …
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The Roles of Gesture in Piano Teaching and Learning
… from disciplines including music-psychology, psycholinguistics, gesture studies, gesture-led educational research, imitation and observational motor-learning.<br/><br/>Three investigations were carried out. The first two combined qualitative and quantitative approaches – results of which were …
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